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DevOps & Automation · Intermediate

Environment Protection Rules

Rules on GitHub Actions deployment environments, such as required reviewers, wait timers, and branch restrictions, that gate jobs.

Definition

Jobs referencing environment: production pause until rules pass. Environments also scope secrets and variables and record deployment history.

Example

A production environment requires approval from the SRE team and allows only the main branch.

Exam tip

Use environments with required reviewers to implement manual approval in GitHub Actions.

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